The Partitions, size and type, on any hard drives?
What type of Keyboard & Mouse i.e. Serial, PS/2, USB or other?
Ps/2 mouse.

Which version of Puppy you are working with?
Slacko 5.3.3-4

I have been using OpenSuse for many years. However I find there is a lot of it for what I need. I used to have 512 mb of ram, which made OpenSuse quite difficult. I would like to try Puppy on my machine to see how I get on.

I have multibooted my machine putting Puppy on the second hard drive. I have tried a full install and a frugal install with no success.

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Aug 26 16:20:48 BST 2012
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

When I look at sdb6, the partition contains these files:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/9f22eb211622175

When I carry out the frugal install with this menu.lst:

Code:

cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sun Aug 26 16:20:48 BST 2012
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# For the new kernel it try to figure out old parameters. In case we are not able to recognize it (e.g. change of flavor or strange install order ) it it use as fallback installation parameters from /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

I defragmented the C:\ drive and used GParted to make an approximate 10 gb partition with ext3. Initially, I put /dev/hda2 for boot, but when I rebooted it just went straight to windows. So I ran Grub and chose MBR next time. I get a linux boot screen from which I can boot windows, but when I try to boot Puppy i get error 15. File not found.

I thought the problems with my desktop were because I was trying to multiboot, but now I wonder. I would have thought that installation to a Windows machine would have been the easiest?

Please let me know if there is any further information you require. I hope that some is able to point me to the correct post or information.

Since the last partitions don't boot i suspect that your BIOSes don't support to boot that far on some of your HDs .

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Other than this it might be related to the filesystem setup made by Suse ( encryption, LVM2 ) . The graphical installer by Suse is very sophisticated and also confusing . There you might have chosen some partitioning options, that are not supported .

I had a look at this. Which bit was I supposed to be looking at in particular? Was it under 'Enhanced BIOS'? or 'OS dependencies'?

Quote:

The boundaries are

* 8.4 Gbytes (7.8 GiB)
* 128 GiB (≈137.4 GB).

I am afraid I don't understand this. Unless you are saying the first drive is okay as Mandriva is in the last 12 gb, but the second drive isn't. I suppose the only way to check this out would be to put Puppy linux where Linux Mint is on the second drive? As the Linux Mint starts before 8.4 gb.

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Since the last partitions don't boot i suspect that your BIOSes don't support to boot that far on some of your HDs ..

Or maybe I should stick Mandriva where puppy should be and see if it works?

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Other than this it might be related to the filesystem setup made by Suse ( encryption, LVM2 ) . The graphical installer by Suse is very sophisticated and also confusing . There you might have chosen some partitioning options, that are not supported ..

I was very careful to ensure that all the partitioning details where the same for all the partitions when I installed OpenSuse. The only one I have changed since then is /hdb8 as I was unable mount it or write to it and I wanted to use it to store files.

Post #3 gives details of instructions I carried out as I understood them. However I am now beginning to wonder as I have had to go away and look up superblock. Did I not do what was requested? If I have not done as requested, please can you provide detailed instructions.

In order for this method to work, you must do a GRUB install into the partition boot sector of sdb6. Do this with the GRUB Legacy Bootloader Config.

I don't think I am being very clear. The first thing I did was the above, but then I worried because it did not work that I had not done that. So I went away and put in the live cd, went through the installation again. Then when it was finished, I went to grub and put it filled in sdb6 when asked.

Because it is an installation I have to write down everything I do. Maybe it would be better if I took a photograph of each screen then you could see what I am doing?

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